My Mac slept through its cron jobs, so I made goguma, a menu bar app
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- My Mac slept through its cron jobs, so I made goguma, a menu bar app
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- github.com
- Launched
- Aug. 19, 2026
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- 8
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- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
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- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
Description
Hi HN, like many of you likely do, I run cron jobs throughout the day/night, but can't afford to have my laptop open all day.So, I decided to build goguma, a free, open-source Mac menu bar app that wakes your Mac only when a cron job/automation is scheduled to run. Unlike caffeinate, Amphetamine, or Adrafinil, which can only keep an awake machine awake, goguma can wake a sleeping machine.It automatically imports all your jobs across launchd, crontab, Hermes, etc, alongside detecting agent activity through hooks. The Mac menu bar app will also show you which job it'll next wake for.It remains safe by skipping wake-ups if it's lower than a battery threshold, and lets the mac sleep if it starts overheating.Happy to hear any feedback and suggestions!
Enrichment
- Theme
- sleep, wake, and clock utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- menu bar app for cron jobs on macos
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a macOS menu bar app written in Swift/Objective-C that parses crontab schedules and calls native macOS power management APIs (IOPMAssertion or `pmset schedule wake`) to schedule wakeups.
Discussion
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Competitors mentioned: nosleep (macbook keep-awake tool)
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